Maya Lin
Maya Lin
Maya Ying Linis an American designer and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and land art. She first came to fame at the age of 21 as the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth5 October 1959
CountryUnited States of America
father artist firsts
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
artist levels rebel
I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.
journey artist space
A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.
artist fog groups
You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
war artist memorial
I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
school thinking artist
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
artist childhood fatherhood
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
art artist roles
The role of art in society differs for every artist.
artist architecture function
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.
war artist memorial
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
war artist views
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
thinking artist should
You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.
artist projects
I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.
children home artist
How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.